When XP is shutting down it checks that all applications and services are shut down. Sometimes, some of the services are not shutting down, thus XP gives them time to shut down on its own. The amount of time XP waits for the service to shut down is stored in the system registry. By changing this setting XP will shutdown faster.

As earlier mentioned in an article, it is possible to change the name of the Start button in XP. In the previous article was described how to do this manually. Resource Hacker is a tool, which does the Hex editing for us.

Simply run Resource Hacker, open the explorer.exe (found in the Windows directory) – and you are ready to make changes.Read more »